Techno
 

I'm starting to get curious about the whole techno genre. I know there's some sweet techno clubs in Europe that I'd love to visit. (side note)

But um, I wanted to know what is some good techno songs/dj's/groups that you know of? Cascada is a huge in the US and that's more of pop-techno. I just want to get to listen to as much as possible.

For my digital audio class I'm going to try to attempt to create a techno song. There's pretty much a "formula" or form for techno songs like any other genre. Classical has sonata form and all that junk. There're forms to american marches. There are forms to jazz charts. For example, you know there are a lot of techno songs that have a section where the bass cuts out, the melody/higher amplitudes are focused....then, there's a silence of 1 beat and the bass comes in with the melody again full throttle. You all know what I'm talking about.

I just want to learn by listening to other songs. So any suggestions, post em here.

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Techno? Wasn't that like 10 years ago ?

lolman produce some acid-jazz/trip-hop/downbeat or something classy don't make dirty drugfucked techno.... biggrin:

What kind of Techno exactly. The Genre is actually Dance. In that genre there are several categories.

- Techno,
- Trance,
- Hard House
- Many more


All depends what category you want to listen to. I usually listen to Trance, when it comes to dance music.

Get yourself listening to DJ tiesto (one of my fav dj's) - adiago for strings you'll have heard of, clockwork orange is a good track, Carl Cox is a well known dj.


I'll finish later - i'm off to work now

techno is actually dance? i think you're only seeing the dance half of electronica from the genres you listed. coleman, there's tons and tons of shit out there. it's hard to recommend you something. basically, do you want catchy dance shit or do you want relaxed and laid back shit? or do you want your brain to explode?

pretty much. Yeah its actually categoriesed as dance. However I was in a rush for work, and couldnt really go into too much detail. All depends exactly what type of music you want to look into.

More sub genre's:
House,
Trance,
Electronic,
disco,
electro,
hardcore,
chillout,
ambiant
garage

Then to make things alot more confusing, there are sub categories within these: Hard trance, electro funk, hard house, and much, much more. I'm not going into large lists.

list of most genre's - i'm pretty sure there are more though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_el ... sic_genres

Strange they have listed the genre as electronic. Most people I know class the genre as dance.

shit there is alot of stuff i see now.

I'm looking for catchy dancable stuff at a party or something.

try this:

http://www.di.fm/edmguide/edmguide.html

Gives real world examples to the music.

that's very helpful. Thanks!


Earlier this year we had to do these little small "labs" that he only gave us a day or two to complete. So i scourged around for clips that I could use. I made a few of 'em:
http://gf1.teamwf.com/Coleman/Rohaly_lab5.mp3
http://gf1.teamwf.com/Coleman/dereksaudio.mp3
(lol @ dereksaudio. If you guys don't know where those files are from you should all be ashamed of yourself!....ps I did the whole tube-radio effect. I didn't use the one that actually came like that in the game files)

edit: Pos' link should be helpful for newbies

I could give you a list of artists you might dig lolman, I've kind of played a few mini-sets at a local bar in Newcastle and people generally loved stuff I played.
Try to stay away from anything to do with Ministry of Sound and Hed Kandi as they're the absolute pits, only made by morons for morons.But of course only you can decide what you like.

Depends what you mean by techno, as its only the media and the pop charts that consider techno as being all electronic music.
However its generally got its own style, its a relentless beat, with pounding beats, its minimal stuff. Sets can go on for hours. Detroit is the best known for its techno.

Electro's getting ripped off alot in the charts now by the hed kandi/ministry producers who want to make a quick buck but theres an immense amount of great electro.

Anyway I'll stop blabbering and give you some myspace artist links, coz they've got tracks on there so you can make up your own mind:

Jimmy Edgar (jazzy bassy stuff)
http://www.myspace.com/colorstrip

Milanese (this guys music may scare you)
http://www.myspace.com/milanese1

Frivolous (jazzy bassy electro)
http://www.myspace.com/58824169

may add some later if you want....

p.s - at only 11.3mb, try his mix out, its glorius and has a wide range of tracks for ya! [url=http://www.datassette.net/music/datashat--tres_tourist_megamix.mp3:32b77]MP3 LINK HERE[/url:32b77]

DOwnload some new Prodigy. They are doing some great DrumnBass now :)

Prodigy - Hotride
Prodigy - Voodoo People (Pendulum Remix)
Pendulum - SLam

dance? cuss:

ed:

"Get yourself listening to DJ tiesto (one of my fav dj's) - adiago for strings you'll have heard of, clockwork orange is a good track, Carl Cox is a well known dj"

AAAaaaarrrrrrrrrghm the most evil of djs!!! stay away from Tiesto!!

I had the misfortune of going to an arena gig as I had free tickets one night and that punk was playing. It was so fucking awful, I threw a plastic bottle at him, had the stewards after me but I escaped them eventually hehe

To me, trance is just a phase you go through at ages 12-15. You hear all this crap in the charts and you think, oooh electronic music, I'll try some out......all the ministry of sound/hed kandi propaganda gets pushed in your face and you think, hmm, go on then. Buy an 'Annual 200x' and so on.........eventually you meet the producers and the djs behind the music, realise all they're in for is the money. You hear all kinds of stories from fellow djs, you see them for what they are and it turns sour..
They're basically all cunts. All of them.

You look a little deeper at ages 17-19 and find all this real underground stuff, the electro, the techno, the off-beat funny tracks, all kinds of weird and wonderful stuff.........then you think, jesus, was I really listening to that shite?!

anyway thats my life story kinda, haha. No offence intended for trance lovers

You could just say me and trance just don't get along :)

lolglowsticks

miyagi digs happyhardcore
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i am not a fan of (like tripper so eloquently put..) drug-fucked techno. but i do enjoy alot of electronic music.. stuff thats made to be listened to in depth, not just played in some lame club with strobe lights.. stuff like Boards of Canada, Clark, Aphex Twin, Venetian Snares, Caribou, Ulrich Schnauss, mum etc

i guess they call it "IDM" - Intelligent dance music, altho most would be near impossible to dance to.. dumb name, great music

happy:

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p.s - love for strvs

i really thought I was going to get laughed at when I posted this topic. I didn't think we (gf1) had so many electronic music enthusiasts. rock:

There's a bunch of great suggestions here. Thanks a lot guys! Keep it coming! beer:

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[quote=jujumantb][/quote:261b4]very odd. I never heard anyone having that problem. A bunch of friends listened to them without any problems.

I disagree, Tiesto rocks my socks & he's my favourite DJ, him, Oakenfold, & Paul Van Dyk are all popular for a reason.

I personally love vocal trance rock: & shall take the liberty of posting some of my favourite vocal & trancy songs below:

Tiesto - Loving arms
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U7-qRH3gIY

Above & Beyond- Can't sleep, I saw them play this live in London on Friday rock:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyDNXfNl2jA

Paul Van Dyk- For an Angel, saw him play this live when I was in Ibiza last summer beer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNqT3yLZ9aw

ATB-9pm Till I Come, original Ibiza song with cachy guitar thing, one of the songs that made the island
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CGmwylYeQs

ATB- Ecstasy, ignore the bullshyt video it's the only one I could find with a decent version of the song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVByGs573OU

DJ Tiesto- Just be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHQnoak_LAc

DJ Tiesto- Love comes again {I dearly want to marry and fuck the girls brains out in this video, Lonneke Engels OMG! rock: ]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5v4hZoR4hY

DJ Tiestos mix of Andain Beautiful Things
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRkXMgAkDWs

DJ Tiesto- Silence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEvE_04x-xI

Ferry Corsten- Fire, saw this guy live in Ibiza too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur8crEs20r8

Greece 2000
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9ztd0m1OGE

Reflekt- need to feel loved
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY8D1HULhy4


If you do like this sorta music I suggest getting a plane ticket to either London, Amsterdam or Ibiza this summer- biggest clubs in the world! biggrin:

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If you do like this sorta music I suggest getting a plane ticket to either London, Amsterdam or Ibiza this summer- biggest clubs in the world! biggrin:[/quote:c0db1]I'd love to do that for a spring break trip my senior year or something or maybe the summer after I graduate with some friends. If I ever come to England, I'm paying your ass a visit.

Try some of these songs out Coleman, heh alot of these Fluffy Bunny already has on his list beer:


ATB - Ecstacy

Above and Beyond - I cant sleep (ATB mix)

Above and Beyond - Air for life

Andy Moor - Halcyon

Juno Reactor - Conquistador I

Ridgewalkers feat el - find(Andy moor remix)

Aphex Twin - Heliosphan

ATB - It's a fine day

Paul Van Dyk - Nothing But you

Paul Oakenfold - Greece 2000 (aka Three Drive Vinyl)

Fc Kahuna - Hayling

http://www.belucci.hu/eng/index.html

She's pretty good biggrin:

I've been looking for a certain techno song for a while now. Its "con te partiro" (that Italian song) set to a dance party beat. The song isn't any longer, but its basically the Italian song with a techno beat (similar to the onesCascada do). Any help would be +1 (if we still had karma). Thanks.

[quote="[DAS REICH] Blitz":ab6ce]I've been looking for a certain techno song for a while now. Its "con te partiro" (that Italian song) set to a dance party beat. The song isn't any longer, but its basically the Italian song with a techno beat (similar to the onesCascada do). Any help would be +1 (if we still had karma). Thanks.[/quote:ab6ce]

Have no idea what you want be these songs just popped in my head

Giusppe D - Amadeus 2000

M@D - The Concert

Coleman, check out some of these if you don't have them already. Yeah, some may be "old" but they're good none the less.

4 Strings - Take me Away
Africanism All Stars - Summer Moon
Afrika Bambaataa - Afrika Shox
Amuka - Appreciate Me
Basement Jaxx - Be Free
Darude - Sandstorm
Dave Gahan - Dirty Sticky Floors
Jonah - Shhh, be quiet

These few are some of my favorites. They're more "dance" than anything.
Galleon - So I Begin
Groove Armada - Easy
Moby - Go
Narcotic Thrust - When The Dawn Breaks
Peter Presta - Totally Hooked
Simone Denny - Cliche'

CHris Lake
Adam Freeland
Sander Kleinberg
Prodigy
Axwell Remix's
Pendulum
Stabillo (Flawed Design Remix)

You guys are gonna rot your brains listening to that Casio keyboard, Commodore 64-created bullshit.

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'Cause every time we touch,
I get this feeling
And every time we kiss,
I swear I could fly
Can't you feel my heart beat fast,
I want this to last,
Need you by my side
'Cause every time we touch,
I feel the static,
And every time we kiss,
I reach for the sky,
Can't you hear my heart beat slow (or so)
I can't let you go,
Want you in my life.

Anyways I dunno...I like Radiohead - Kid A and Amnesiac albums...that uses some of that shit in it...besides that...I only enjoyed that techno shit in a club cuz well girls like it.

Cascada = mainstream gino bullshit

yeah I know...but that shit is catchy

Pretty much the girls I work with, half of them are italian...so im stuck knowing this stuff...not like it's not help...my knowledge of the backstreet boys and spice girls works out too...

quit playing games with my heart short hand

You listen to shit music..."y'all"

i hate that techno music thats just beats and no words/real music to it

I learned in class today on how to actually fit some downloaded loops in time with your own tempo. Pretty cool stuff. I'm gonna mix and create some songs using these websites as sources:

http://soundpros.iscool.net/
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~spufus/
http://remixer.com/beats/

DJLOLMAN